This year is the 25th anniversary of Pixar’s “Pool Ball” rendering that launched Renderman at SIGGRAPH1984 in Minneapolis. To commemorate the occasion, FXGuide has an audio interview with Rob Cook of Pixar, the primary architect of Renderman and creator of the original rendering.
With the release of the critically acclaimed film UP by Pixar, we take a moment and acknowledge that 2009 marks 25 years since the famous Pool Ball shot 1984. In this week’s fxpodcast we talk to Rob Cook of Pixar about the some of the history surrounding that landmark shot, his own career and the industry today. Meanwhile we took a bash at redoing the shot to see just how much easier things are today.
They also have recreations of the shot. So far they’ve got Matt Leonard who rendered it with Maya in 1min 42seconds, and David Stripinis who rendered it with Modo in about 2 hours. Think you can do better?
via fxguide – vfx training – 1984 – Pool Balls 25 Years Later.
